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When the handsome Cultivators in feathery clothes flew out of the splendid floating mountains on their swords and looked down at the common folks who were emaciated, sallow, ragged, and even stinky on the ground, that was the biggest difference between heaven and earth!
"Ordinary people are just ants!"
Li Yao, who grew up in a new era, found it hard to agree with such a statement.
It was because in the modern Cultivation civilization where the Star Glory Federation was located, even the ordinary people who did not have the strength to truss a chicken could be well-dressed, clean, and have a strong body and a good appearance. At the very least, they did not look very different from the Cultivators at first glance.
However, in such a world of ancient Cultivators where productivity was not very developed yet, the so-called 'difference between deities and ordinary people' was real. What were the ordinary people who were struggling in the caves if not lambs and ants?
Therefore, the Cultivators that Li Yao observed in secret, although they might not be aggressive toward the ordinary people, at the very least, they were naturally condescending when they got in touch with the ordinary people.
When they looked at the ordinary people, it was more like 'indifference' than 'contempt', as if the difference between them and the ordinary people was perfectly justified and natural.
Almost all the sects that he passed by were the same.
Li Yao secretly remarked with mixed feelings. He was about to criticize the ancient Cultivators who despised the ordinary people with the glorious theory of the Xing Yao Federation that 'Cultivators are fish, ordinary people are water, and Cultivators are the sabers of the civilization of mankind'.
However, the words of some locals of the Ancient Sages Sector slapped him hard in the face.
He stopped at a town named 'Stone Martial City'. Seeing that the gate of the 'Stone Martial Hall', a local sect, was particularly splendid, and its fortress was particularly splendid, while the villages of the ordinary people nearby were particularly shabby and desolate, Li Yao thought of something and stopped for further investigation.
He sent Ling Lanyin away and entered the Stone Martial City in the disguise of a traveler.
As he expected, the Cultivators in the place were particularly arrogant and disdainful of the ordinary people.
When they arrived at a teahouse at the foot of a mountain outside the city, Li Yao could not hold back the anger in his heart when he heard a few customers chatting.
As it turned out, the Stone Martial Hall had been acting on its own. Not only had they cut off the food and taxes that should've been submitted to the court, they had even initiated labor on behalf of the court!
The regular families within the territory of the Stone Martial Hall had to send men to work for the Stone Martial Hall for three to five years. During that time, they would only be paid very little or nothing at all.
The customer's youngest son had been working for the Cultivators in the Stone Martial Hall for three years. He had been working hard for three years and was about to be released home.
One day, however, he turned into a cold body and was thrown out by the Stone Martial Sect. It was said that he had died of exhaustion.
Looking at the corpse, it was indeed emaciated. Blue veins were bulging out, and it looked like its Qi and blood had dried up. It was obvious that it had been subjected to labor beyond its ability for a long time.
Most importantly of all, when the customer was talking about the death of his youngest son, he did not show any dissatisfaction with the Stone Martial Hall except for his grief.
Even the other customers were only lamenting that his youngest son was unlucky, but they did not dare complain about the Stone Martial Hall at all. They did not even realize the Stone Martial Hall's responsibility.
Li Yao couldn't bear it any longer. Thoughts such as' regret for their misfortune, fury for their incompetence ',' natural rights, equality of all people ',' raise your arms and wake up the ignorant and numb ancients' were running amok in his internal organs. He couldn't help but mock them.
Out of his expectation, he had infuriated everybody after he said a few words, and they all attacked him. Even the customer whose youngest son had died from overwork in the Stone Martial Hall was glaring at him and spitting at him.
The criticism of the customers dumbfounded Li Yao at first. Then, he was rendered speechless. In the end, he blushed in embarrassment.
As it turned out, the area where the Stone Martial Hall was located was the steepest and densest mountainous area of the Sorcerers' River.
Apart from this small basin, the surrounding area was surrounded by high mountains and steep ridges, and the mountains and ridges were shrouded by clouds and mist that lingered all year round.
In many places in the mountains, sunlight could only be seen for a couple of days in a year. The rest of the days were filled with incessant rain.
Such a barren place was naturally full of demons and ghosts. Not only would they devour the villagers who strayed into the deep mountains and forests by mistake, they would even go down the mountain in groups and eat all the people in the villages until only piles of bones were left.
It was all thanks to the Cultivators of the Stone Martial Hall that a major city, almost ten towns, and dozens of villages could be developed in such a harsh environment. [Love ↑ Go ↑ Little ↑ Say ↑ Net
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It was all because of their fearlessness that they ventured deep into the mountains time and time again to slay demons and devils, opening up new living space. Only then could the ordinary people follow them and burn down the mountains to open up new wastelands and build new villages!
"Since the Stone Martial Hall was established more than two hundred years ago, we have to clean the forests nearby more than ten times every year to eliminate the nests of fiends and animals. Twenty deities perish every year, if not fifty, every year!
"Exactly. In recent decades alone, even two leaders of the Stone Martial Hall have been killed in order to slay the monsters!"
"Without the deities of the Stone Martial Hall, all the villages and villages in the hundreds of square kilometers nearby would've been ravaged by the monsters. That's why this place is named 'Stone Martial City'. It's a tribute to the deities for their kindness!"
"We must be grateful. How can we be ungrateful, heartless, and ungrateful bastards? Two leaders of the Stone Martial Hall have been killed, and almost twenty of their regular disciples are killed every year. Almost ten of their disciples are killed in a … trial. What's there to complain about when one member of our family is killed? "
Li Yao did not expect that the 'ignorant, insensitive victims' would say that. He hesitated for a long time before he replied. In any case, the Stone Martial Hall should not have withheld the taxes of the court and recruited the corvee without permission. That would be an insult to the dignity of the court. If every sect was like a small kingdom like the Stone Martial Hall, what would happen to the Great Qian Dynasty, which was on the brink of collapse?
His words caused the crowd to roar with laughter.
To this moment, all the customers considered Li Yao to be a pedantic scholar who had been reading too much. They were too lazy to argue with him.
A slightly gentle-looking native, who looked like a teacher, counted with his fingers and did some calculations with him.
First of all, theoretically speaking, the Stone Martial Hall did not have the right to withhold the food and taxes that were submitted to the court.
But then again, for the commoners, they had to pay taxes anyway. If these grains and taxes were turned over to the imperial court, who knew where they would end up? Or perhaps they would end up in the hands of those high-ranking officials in the imperial court and end up gone!
If the food and taxes were directly submitted to the Stone Martial Hall, the Stone Martial Hall was a local sect after all. No matter how they squandered the resources, most of them would be squandered in the local area anyway. That was the logic of keeping the goodies in the pot and keeping the goodies within the family.
Besides, annihilating the monsters in the forests nearby so that they could collect the rare materials on them and the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures deep inside the forests was of great benefit to the Stone Martial Hall. It was even the fundamental way to maintain the development of the Stone Martial Hall.
Even if the civilians did not urge them, the Stone Martial Hall would still try their best to slay the monsters. Most of the resources that they collected would be used on that.
To some extent, it was also a case of taking from the people and using the people!
Therefore, the local people naturally supported the Stone Martial Hall wholeheartedly. Every tax season, they would try their best to help the Stone Martial Hall intercept the food and taxes.
It was the same logic for corvee labor.
For the civilians, they had to serve the corvee either way, either for the Stone Martial Hall or the court.
But working for the Stone Martial Hall had a lot of benefits.
First of all, the Stone Martial Hall was in the local area. Even the high and mighty Cultivators were mostly from the same hometown. After a lot of twists and turns, they would more or less be related to each other.
As the saying went, when a Cultivator became a Cultivator, all his friends and family would follow him. Would they be able to completely disregard their family and treat their mother and father as ants?
Naturally, it was impossible. At the very least, for most of the low-level Cultivators, it was impossible for them to watch their seventy-year-old mother writhing on the ground and not do anything about it.
Therefore, for the laborers that their seventy-year-old mother introduced to them, they might be indifferent to them at best, but they would not intentionally torture them.
Therefore, after so many years, it was true that the ordinary people working for the Stone Martial Hall had died of overwork, but it was rare that they were tortured to death. Even if there were, it was only because they had violated the rules of the sect and were 'punished'.
Also, if they worked for the Stone Martial Hall, the Cultivators of the Stone Martial Hall would have more time to train themselves. The stronger they were, the more demon beasts they would be able to slay. Wouldn't it be even more peaceful in the local area?
Besides, if they worked for a Cultivation sect, if they were smart enough and lucky enough, chances were that they could pick up some basic martial arts under the influence of others. They could even become Cultivators themselves if they were lucky enough!
Although the possibility of this happening was extremely small, for the common people who were always "facing the yellow soil with their backs to the sky, a single drop of sweat falling to the ground", it was the only way for their own children to rise up.
Even if the path did not work out, as long as they worked hard and won the favor of a certain deity, they would have a great backer when they traveled in their hometown in the future!
However, if he were to serve the imperial court, he would lose all of these benefits.
First of all, to work for the imperial court, one often had to be conscripted to a place tens of thousands of miles away, a place where one was unfamiliar with the people and the land. Not acclimatizing to the environment was a small matter, but it was a common occurrence to be beaten, raped, and squeezed dry.
To be more honest, if they were killed in the Stone Martial Hall, their bodies would still be intact.
If they joined the court's army and died on a battlefield thousands of kilometers away, they would be blessed by their ancestors if they could leave a bucket of ashes behind!
Also, the army of the court made of ordinary people was the humblest profession. It was barely possible for them to get in touch with the Cultivators, receive their tutelage, or find a backer.
In the end, all the local youths were conscripted to be thousands of miles away. What should they do about the demons and ghosts in the nearby mountains and forests? The immortals couldn't do heavy chores and slay demons and ghosts, right?
What? The court needed an army to fight Ghost Qin?
What the f * ck does Ghost Qin have to do with me? It was not Ghost Qin that savaged the Stone Martial Hall for hundreds of years but the devils in the mountains nearby!
It was the northerners' business when Ghost Qin's wolves trampled on the northland. Why should the southerners bleed for nothing?
"The court? In our place, the court is nothing but an egg, and the Stone Martial Hall is the sky! "
"When the tigers and wolves went on a rampage, the deities of the Stone Martial Hall all rushed forward to fight them. Where was the army of the court? Not a single one of them! "
"The harvest was ripe. When it was time to collect food, they came rather fast, but they were all beaten back by the deities of the Stone Martial Hall!"
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